Marching one step ahead, CANMASS, the only cultural institution of Paradip, in collaboration with Department of Culture, Governments of Karnataka and Odisha and Paradip Port Trust (PPT) organised two-day Karnataka Utsav on December 13 and 14.
Earlier CANMASS had organised the National Theatre Festival, every year, and lot more theatre workshops, literary and cultural programmes for the culture- loving people of Paradip.
Attending the inaugural evening on December 13, Joint Director, Culture, Karnataka Dr Pragyan, Odisha Sangeeet Natak Academy Secretary Dhira Mallick and PPT Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra reiterated the endeavour of CANMASS in the field of socio-cultural development in Paradip and said that language is not a bar in this field and organising such programmes facilitates
cultural interaction among the States.
The inaugural function was presided over by CANMASS president Capt AKMohapatra. On the first day, the artists of Karnataka presented songs and several colourful dance items.
On the closing day they presented instrumental and vocal music and colourfull folk dance of Karnataka and dance items on unity in
diversity.
The two — day Utsav was directed by Dolgovind Rath and co-ordinated by eminent drama director Sreenivas G. Kappanna and CANMASS secretary Sriman Narayan Mishra.